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"The president’s unhealthy obsession with our show has been in the public record for months, and we are seldom surprised by his posting nasty tweets about us," the pair continued. "We were heartened to hear a number of Republican lawmakers call out Mr. Trump for his offensive words and can only hope that the women who are closest to him will follow their examples,"

"We’re okay, the country’s not," Scarborough, 54, added. "We've gotten calls from ambassadors and leaders across the world expressing shock."

The president responded on Twitter around two hours later, saying he "Watched low rated @Morning_Joe for the first time in a long time. FAKE NEWS. He called me to stop a National Enquirer article. I said no! Bad show."

Watched low rated @Morning_Joe for first time in long time. FAKE NEWS. He called me to stop a National Enquirer article. I said no! Bad show

Brzezinski and Scarborough were responding to tweets posted by Trump on Thursday that referred to the couple as 'crazy' and 'psycho.' Trump went even further saying Brzezinski was "bleeding badly from a face-lift" when the pair visited Mar-a-Lago over New Year's Eve.

"We did not want to go to Mar-a-Lago," Brzezinski said.

The journalist said then President-elect Trump had repeatedly asked for her and Scarborough to come down to the Palm Beach estate and that she had her "did have a little skin under her chin tweaked."